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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 02/10/2026
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday ​persuaded a US ‌federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ​ban on AI-generated ​fake nude images as ⁠the technology and ​social media company pursues ​a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/08/2026
Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. From the archives:
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Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
This is nuts: "Trump Media has unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed that will give banks ​& trading firms 'the fastest' access to posts from influential Truth Social ‌accounts Trump’s posts on the platform regularly move markets. High speed access to these could be very valuable to traders"
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Truth Social to sell Wall Street firms the ‘fastest’ access to Trump’s posts
President Donald Trump’s posts on the platform regularly move markets. High speed access to these could be very valuable to traders and investors.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Whatever we say the past is becomes prologue.
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Greg Bovino was this season's Joe Arpaio.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Today in Trump - May 11, 2018 www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/u...
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Kirstjen Nielsen, Chief of Homeland Security, Almost Resigned After Trump Tirade (Published 2018)
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr... Breaking Trump Administration Closes Watchdog Office For Immigration Detention Abuses The closure of the ombudsman’s office adds to the lack of oversight of immigration jails nationwide, despite the Trump administration’s efforts to surge detention capacity.
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Trump Admin Closes Office That Investigates Abuse In Immigration Detention System
The closure of the ombudsman’s office adds to the lack of oversight of immigration jails nationwide, despite the Trump administration’s efforts to surge detention capacity.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Wait, I thought we brought in trillions of dollars of tariffs and were going to erase the deficit with it? He lied again? GASP!
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I really, absolutely and truly wish journalists and pundits would stop referencing The Art of the Deal to explain Trump's approach. He didn't fucking write it. Tony Schwartz did. Art of Putting Your Name on Shit, How to Avoid Consequences, those are more accurate book titles to describe him with.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Honestly, Fox's Faulkner Focus cut off "Destruction of a civilization" in their on-screen quote of Trump's tweet.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Listening to Kevin smugly saying “you’re welcome” for resurrecting trump just hits dofferent these days. youtube.com/watch?v=JNOv...
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Sarah Longwell CALLS OUT Trump’s Biggest Enablers TO THEIR FACE
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Rep. Al Green held a sign as Trump walked by him in the chamber reading "Black people aren't apes." He was just removed from the chamber.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 23/02/2026
This is from The Guardian US which I also write for. The editorial decisions etc. generally come large US teams in US based newsrooms! There’s some shared DNA with the UK Guardian but it’s an American operation.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This is so on the nose!
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Here’s an example of a local newsroom actually informing the public about AI (the role of journalism) versus the blatant AI boosterism we’re seeing many other newsrooms engage in to the detriment of the entire profession
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Rasmussen’s poll of Trump approval is at -16 That is wild
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
Thus, rather than require such adjudications, the Department is changing its regulations to provide the Board more flexibility in reviewing appeals. Instead, for appeals taken from decisions issued after this IF becomes effective, as explained in
Section IV.A of this preamble, the default will be summary dismissal unless a majority of current Board members vote to consider the appeal on the merits. And such dismissals
will occur quickly—within 15 days of filing the appeal—allowing aliens to seek Federal court review expeditiously, rather than potentially waiting for years for a Board decision that in the vast majority of cases would affirm the underlying Immigration Judge
decision.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I found the Greg Bovino origin story! youtube.com/watch?v=qYVK...
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Greg - The Flamboyant Kid on Curb Your Enthusiasm
YouTube video by scifisy
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Canada ready to send a small contingent of soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with other NATO allies, pending Mark Carney's approval, in the face of U.S. President Trump's threats, Robert Fife and @stevenchase.bsky.social report www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Canada weighs sending soldiers to Greenland as show of NATO solidarity with Denmark
Move would likely anger U.S. President Trump, who has threatened new tariffs on European countries that sent miliary personnel to Greenland
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Every State Should Be Saying This… Larry Krasner, Philadelphia DA: Donald Trump cannot pardon you for a state court conviction. Do you hear me, ICE agent. I will charge you with those crimes. You will be arrested. You will stand trial. You will be convicted. 👏
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Beat this @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Serious issue with defunding ICE or it running out of a mission: What to do with the 1000s of indoctrinated agents, who have a network, who are now used to violence and missing their paycheques.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
So far the pundits offer these reasons for toppling Maduro 1 - Control oil 2 - Deny China/Russia a base of operations 3 - As an trade in influence for Ukraine 4 - Trump didn’t like Maduro dancing around 5 - Stop drug traffic 6 - Resurrect the state 7 - Mess with Cuba and Russia
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BNO News @bnonews.com · 06/01/2026
BREAKING: Heavy gunfire near Venezuela's presidential palace, circumstances unclear
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If Maduro is tried in NYC, and it’s a random judge, it would be quite a thing if the judge determines the arrest was unlawful.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
With the 60 minutes reminder, Trump isn’t just the shithead who tore down the east wing and put gold shit everywhere He’s the shithead who sent in innocent people to be tortured and sexually assaulted, and who tore down the east wing and put gold shit everywhere.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The 60 Minutes CECOT report didn’t blow my mind. A lot of it was familiar, but it was powerful. We’re so forgetful now. Bringing us back to March, and adds context to today. Revisiting breaks the “flood the zone with shit” tactic.
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Carolyn Hudson @cmusician.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
What's Fuelling White Nationalism in Canada? | The Rundown youtu.be/E4M260gCxFQ?... #cdnpoli #onpoli
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What's Fuelling White Nationalism in Canada? | The Rundown
YouTube video by TVO Today
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🧪 How many times and in what different ways do we need confirmation that genAI is crap for anything except the simplest tasks? *Because it doesn't read, or comprehend, or think*. (also, hilariously, it's the same AI Oxford Uni has just paid some huge sum to licence for all staff & students)
Screen grab of article text:
"Science

The results were mixed. The LLM did
summarize scientific fndings in
language that was accessible to
nonexperts it avoided technical terms
and jargon, for example). It also
effectively summed up commentary
content, such as Science's Policy Forums, for a lay audience. However, it tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity. The
ChatGPT Plus summaries required
rigorous fact-checking by SciPak writers.
Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was
needed. For example, ChatGPT Plus had
a fondness for using the word
"groundbreaking." It also struggled to
highlight more than one result from
multifaceted studies. When asked to 

summarize two papers at once, it could
only cover the first of the two submitted.
It ultimately defaulted to jargon if
challenged with research particularly
dense in information, detail, and
complexity."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
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Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Whether it was the assassinations in Minnesota earlier this summer or the shooting today, I'm disgusted by the escalation of political violence across our country. This cannot be the new norm. We must come together to reform the broken political system that has brought us here.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I’m wondering if this highlighting of “random, ideologically-empty mass violence” is a bid to create the next MAGA movement? Imagine JD Vance talking about “Making America Great and safe” by flooding the void of nihilism with AMERICAN values! This is a big step towards making thought crimes.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
What this deployment says to me: Fuck with anyone in the Trump admin, and the response will be disproportionate and overwhelming!
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
All this “Trump is shitting bricks!” stuff if fun. But please don’t forget, if he fucks off, it leaves a power vacuum. The issue then becomes “who gets to control the new ICE Army?” Will it be JD Vance and the billionaire tech guys? Will it be the New Apostolic Reformation guys?
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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Thoughts as a historian on ICE raids: —They are blowback at home of 2 decades of special ops, contractors, operatives, etc at work in Iraq +Afgh —They will be rife w sadism, violence, criminal extortion, b-mail, & will distort civil society, —There will be slivers of humanity and resistance.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
MAGA is a coalition. The Q-Anons can't do without him. The tech bros can. I wonder if the tech bros are going to take their shot at taking power.
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Bet! Trump is out. * BBB is passed, * ICE funding for suppression is in, * 6 months of unpopular trashing of the state done. Time for JD Vance and the techno state.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
They are extremely clear about the fact that they consider themselves to be at war with you. They do not equivocate about it. It's their stated policy.
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Media came down on Mamdani like a ton of bricks for a phrase he literally never once said. Trump says a slur on stage on camera and they twist themselves in pretzels like this. If this is what journalism is, I welcome its death
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, deserves to be starved, beaten, and forced to kneel for hours until they soil themselves and/or pass out from exhaustion I don't care if Abrego Garcia is a serial killer, a serial rapist, the Antichrist hinself. it is evil to do this to ANY human being
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Real time accountability
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weynouth.bsky.social @weynouth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Trumps speech at Ft Bragg today is worth watching. He tells us, directly, what he is thinking. He’s clear about using the military to “clean up” LA, and he’s looking for claps from the soldiers at the fort.
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